Yeah. This is tricky because the examples given in this post were neither:
- Responded to by anybody in the community, nor
- Flagged for anyone to review
And I’d generally prefer the former FWIW. It’s easy to forget that there are probably people here who were like, 3 years old or whatever when Snowden blew the whistle. For some people the lies that tech companies (and even FOSS projects, etc.) regularly tell about their security or privacy are simply less obvious to them, and they haven’t been corrected yet.
If misconceptions are addressed on the forum and they keep coming up it becomes a problem, but in those cases you can (and should) always link back to older/original discussions instead of rehashing them over and over again. If it’s something that hasn’t been addressed before… I don’t think it’s a good idea to remove it. I agree with others that this is sort of the point of a forum and it’s how people learn. I don’t think anyone learns from simply erasing everything that isn’t true.